The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected Ukraine’s demand for Russia to compensate for damages from the conflict in Donbass that began in 2014, TASS reports citing the court’s decision. The court ruling states that Kyiv’s accusations regarding Moscow’s financing of terrorist organizations in the South-East of Ukraine from 2014 to 2022 are untrue.
At the same time, according to the ICJ, Russia violated some provisions of the UN Convention against Terrorism, since it did not investigate episodes of financing of separatist entities in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions in 2014. According to the court, of all the clauses of the Convention, the Russian Federation violated only the first (Part 9), which states that international terrorist groups cannot be the object of investment or support, including from the state.
In addition, the ICJ recognized that the Russian authorities selectively comply with the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In particular, in Crimea the number of students studying the Ukrainian language has decreased. However, the court rejected Ukraine’s request that the rights of Crimean Tatars and people with Ukrainian roots were allegedly regularly violated on the territory of the peninsula since 2014.
Let us recall that in 2017, Ukraine asked to find Russia guilty of violating the Convention against Terrorism and the Convention against Racial Discrimination due to the events in Donbass and Crimea. The Russian side, in turn, argued that Kyiv’s accusations are groundless, since they have no evidence base.
Source: Rosbalt
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